Pavle Đurišić (1909–1945) was a Royal Yugoslav Army officer who
became a Chetnik leader during World War II. He was a commander of a
popular uprising in July 1941 against the Italians who occupied
Montenegro, then collaborated with the Italians against the Yugoslav
Partisans. On 13 February 1943, he wrote to Draža Mihailović, the
Chetnik supreme commander, reporting that his men had killed about 1,200
Bosnian Muslim combatants and 8,000 women, children and elderly people
in Montenegro and eastern Bosnia. Soon after, Đurišić and his troops
participated in an anti-Partisan offensive alongside Italian troops.
Captured by the Germans in May 1943, he escaped and was recaptured.
Released after the Italian surrender, he began collaborating with the
Germans and the Serbian puppet government. In 1944 he was decorated by
the German commander in Montenegro. Đurišić was killed by the Armed
Forces of the Independent State of Croatia near Banja Luka after he was
captured in April 1945.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavle_%C4%90uri%C5%A1i%C4%87>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1867:
Work began on the covering of the Senne, burying the polluted
main river of Brussels to allow for urban renewal in the centre of the
city.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covering_of_the_Senne>
1945:
World War II: The Allies began a strategic bombing of Dresden,
Germany, resulting in a lethal firestorm that killed tens of thousands
of civilians.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War_II>
1970:
The English rock band Black Sabbath released their eponymous
debut album, which is generally accepted as the first heavy metal album.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sabbath_%28album%29>
2012:
The first Vega rocket was launched by the European Space
Agency.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vega_%28rocket%29>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
podcast:
1. (transitive) To deliver (information) in the form of a programme,
especially an audio programme, over the Internet on a regular basis for
playback on computers or portable devices such as mobile phones.
2. (intransitive) To deliver a programme, especially an audio programme,
over the Internet on a regular basis for playback on computers or
portable devices such as mobile phones.
3. A programme, especially an audio programme, produced on a regular
basis, delivered over the Internet in a compressed digital format and
designed for playback on computers or portable devices such as mobile
phones.
4. (loosely) An individual episode of such a programme.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/podcast>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
When we went to school we were told that we were governed by
laws, not men. As a result of that, many people think there is no need
to pay any attention to judicial candidates because judges merely apply
the law by some mathematical formula and a good judge and a bad judge
all apply the same kind of law. The fact is that the most important part
of a judge's work is the exercise of judgment and that the law in a
court is never better than the common sense judgment of the judge that
is presiding.
--Robert H. Jackson
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_H._Jackson>